Bunting works. All those extra inning losses when it seems the outcome would have been different if only the Rangers would have bunted were explained away that bunting isn’t really a successful strategy. Giving away an out with a runner in scoring position isn’t smart. Let your hitters hit away. […]
The Rangers did the Math. And Math doesn’t lie. With two-fifths of a major-league-caliber rotation, and about forty percent of the season left, they simply don’t have enough pitching to cover the rest of the year. So, Texas signed Dallas Keuchel to a minor league contract. It wasn’t for the […]
Never throw water on a grease fire. And never bring in the Rangers bullpen unless you have a ten-run lead or more. Texas took a 10-0 lead, then an 11-1 lead, then hung on for dear life to an 11-8 victory over Oakland, who scored four runs in the eighth […]
Second and third, one out in the first. No runs scored. Second and third, one out in the sixth. Walk. Now bases loaded. No runs scored. The Rangers simply lack the ability to take advantage of opportunities. No small ball. No manufacturing runs. No execution skills whatsoever. Remember when the talk […]
“The Rangers make it interesting but come up short.” That’s how the Rangers announcer called the final out in the top of the ninth after Texas had scored two runs to pull within 5-4, with the bases loaded. Interesting. Come up short. That could be an apt description of the […]
July has not been kind to the Rangers. The schedule makers are about to make up for it. The second half of the season started with a one-game stopover in Miami. Miami was shut out twice in a row before coming into Thursday’s game. The game before that, they lost […]
Remember the lockout? Remember how it delayed the start of the season and how at first there was talk of cancelling the season then there was talk of a shorter season then there was talk of, well, all sorts of scenarios? They ended up settling it, of course. And they […]
For the ninth year in a row, the American League won the All-Star Game. Like most things in life, it’s not what it used to be. Before interleague play, the only time players from both leagues met was in the World Series. Each league had its own president, who ran […]
Maybe the Rangers draft fortunes will change under Chris Young. Last year, he snagged Jack Leiter in the draft, a move that was universally praised. This year, he took last year’s best pitcher first, with the third pick of the first round. Kumar Rocker. Then, the Rangers didn’t have a […]
For two years, Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker were the dynamic duo of college baseball. They were the two aces of the best college baseball team in the country, Vanderbilt. They were two of the most coveted players in last year’s draft, expected to go in the top five. They […]
